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Dec 16th, 2009 |
By Martin Glassborow |
Category: Storage
I’ve been thinking about FAST and especially FAST v2 but not entirely from a storage point of view. FAST v2 and indeed any automated storage tiering product has some interesting uses beyond storage and could be a basis for a whole new way of managing IT as a service. In fact, it finally enables storage and beyond to managed as a service. BTW I’m going to use FAST as shorthand for any automated storage product; so please don’t take this as only being about EMC.
Tags: EMC, FAST, Google Posted in Storage |
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Dec 11th, 2009 |
By Devang Panchigar |
Category: Storage
FAST (FULLY AUTOMATED STORAGE TIERING). FAST made a debut in the storage market yesterday (12/08/09). Finally after the market buzz we got a preview of the product in terms of its features, functionality, characteristics, possible shortcomings and use cases. This blog post focuses on the features, the drawbacks and some applications around FAST. By no means is this a comprehensive or an exhaustive list of the above.
Tags: "in-the-box", "out-of-box", 5874, Advanced Tiering Storage management, Atmos, ATSM, average I/O, Celerra NS, Centera, CKD, CLARiiON, configuration, CX4, Data center, Drives, FAST, FAST LUN Migrator, FBA, Fibre, flash, Fully Automated Storage Tiering, IOPS, LUN, Mainframe, multitenancy, Naviseccli, Navisphere Analyzer, Open Systems, policy, Private Clouds, Rainfinity file management / VE, Rainfinity File management appliance, Raw capacity, Release 29, SATA, SLA, storage groups, Symcli, Symmetrix Management Console, Symmetrix V-Max Thick provisioning, vblock, virtual provisioning Posted in Storage |
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Dec 11th, 2009 |
By Chris Evans |
Category: Server Virtualization, Storage
I spent some time today looking at the release notes for Enginuity code 5874.207.166, which presumably is the one that brings the much lauded Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) into general release on V-Max. Just above the FAST paragraph I found the following:
Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning Space Reclamation reduces capacity requirements and total cost of ownership [...]
Tags: Barry Burke, EMC, Enginuity, Enterprise Computing, FAST, gestaltit, V-Max, Zero Block Reclaim, ZPR Posted in Server Virtualization, Storage |
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Dec 10th, 2009 |
By Devang Panchigar |
Category: Storage, Tech
Truly this was one of the most awaited products of 2009 from EMC after the initial announcement by EMC back in April 2009 along with the release of Symmetrix V-Max. Along with FAST, EMC has also introduced some new enhancements to the EMC Symmetrix V-Max, Clariion CX4 and Celerra NS platforms. Currently FAST will be available on the above 3 platforms at debut and will provide automated storage tiering “in-the-box” for Symmetrix V-Max, “in-the-box” for Clariion CX4 and “out-of-box” for Celerra NS platforms.
Tags: 5874, Atmos, Automated, Celerra, Centera, CLARiiON, CLI, CX4, Data Movement, Dynamic Cache Partitioning, EMC, FAST, Fibre, flash, Fully Automated Storage Tiering, Navisphere Analyzer, Navisphere Quality Service manager, NS, Rainfinity file management / VE, Rainfinity File management appliance, Release 29, SATA, SSD, Symcli, Symmetrix Management Console, Symmetrix Optimizer, symmetrix performance analyzer, symmetrix priority controls, V-Max Posted in Storage, Tech |
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Dec 10th, 2009 |
By Bas |
Category: Server Virtualization, Storage
As you might have read in my earlier blog post, EMC has announced the release of the first version of their product called “Fully Automated Storage Tiering” or in short “FAST”.
Now, to describe the purpose of this technology in a very simple form, we are talking about the performance of your storage and some logic [...]
Tags: EMC, FAST, gestaltit, tiering Posted in Server Virtualization, Storage |
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Dec 9th, 2009 |
By Chris Evans |
Category: Server Virtualization, Storage
Yesterday, EMC announced Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), their much hyped and much anticipated storage feature enabling the automated moving of data between tiers of storage on a policy basis. However the most notable missing feature in the EMC announcement was the lack of support for legacy DMX-3 and DMX-4 platforms. This to me sends [...]
Tags: 3PAR, Compellent, DMX, EMC, Enterprise Computing, EqualLogic, FAST, gestaltit, LeftHand, V_Max, XIV Posted in Server Virtualization, Storage |
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Oct 21st, 2009 |
By Devang Panchigar |
Category: Featured, Storage
It has been an exciting month, some new details are emerging related to automated storage tiering, workload distributions, workflow automation, SLA’s, QoS and how Policy based storage management can help solve these challenges.
Tags: @storagenerve, Algorithms, Application, Automated Storage Tiering, Compellent, Data Progression, EMC, FAST, HDS, Hetergenous, Hybrid Clouds, IBM, Middleware, Networking, OS, Pillar Data Systems, policy, Private Clouds, Public Clouds, QoS, Server Virtualization, SLA, Storage Blogosphere, workflow automations, Workload distributions Posted in Featured, Storage |
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Oct 19th, 2009 |
By Chris Evans |
Category: Featured, Storage
So, here’s my rash statement from Twitter last night: “If FAST isn’t free, I don’t want it! All it’s doing is automating process I could script/do manually”. It’s a bold statement, I know, so is FAST really offering something better than what could be achieved today using EMC’s Symmetrix Optimizer?
Tags: barry whyte, binfile, Compellent, Data Progression, EMC, Enterprise Computing, FAST, gestaltit, HiCommand Tiered Storage Manager, Hitachi, hyper, IBM, Optimizer, Storage Tiering 1.0, Storage Tiering 2.0, Symmetrix Posted in Featured, Storage |
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Oct 15th, 2009 |
By Devang Panchigar |
Category: Featured, Storage
Enhancements to EMC Symmetrix V-Max systems is possibly around the corner (FY09 Q4). FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) is due this quarter and will be one of the most awaited software release in the enterprise storage space by EMC. Bundled together with FAST, possibly a new microcode version the enables FAST (its associated features) and other expected enhancements.
Tags: Atmos, cache, Devang Panchigar, Ed Saipetch, EMC, FAST, FCoE, Fully Automated Storage Tiering, gestaltit, Ionix, iSCSI, Management Console, microcode, Open Migrator, Open Replicator, Petabyte, RapidIO, Sata II, SMC, SRDF / DM, Symmetrix, Symmetrix V-Max, Terabyte, V-Max, vSphere Posted in Featured, Storage |
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Aug 17th, 2009 |
By Stephen Foskett |
Category: Server Virtualization, Storage
EMC’s Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) was one of the most welcome annoucements made during the Symmetrix V-Max introduction. It would be a significant modernization of EMC’s Symmetrix line, and would be one of the first unique features of the Symmetrix V-Max line. But many, including me, were disappointed to learn in May that FAST [...]
Tags: Compellent, EFD, EMC, Enterprise storage, Enterprise Storage Forum, Everything, FAST, Gestalt IT, LUN, SSD, Symmetrix, thin provisioning, tiered storage, V-Max, virtual provisioning, Virtual Storage Posted in Server Virtualization, Storage |
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